I got into a conversation with friends today about languages and we couldn't agree on which one was best, so it got me wondering what people in general's favourite was.

Personally, my favourite language is Japanese. I love the way it flows and to my ears it sounds so melodic and elegant. I like the writing systems too, I've only been learning Japanese for 2 1/2 years now (and in that time have done a month-long exchange there) and I can read all the kana and a decent amount of Kanji, so easiness of learning has made me love it too.

English not only is it one of the most useful languages its one of the most lyrical if you want to make it big in music your best bet is still to sing in English.

Well, I have to praise the English system of always using "The" and having a "a/an"-system that actually makes sense.


...but my bias is far too strong. Svenska äger! (Swedish FTW!)

GERMAN!!
for some reason i found german a very sexy language :P

Is that even a language?

OT: 日本語！ Yup it's awesome. French is also quite nice, so is German. Now Spanish, probably as it's my native language I don't see it that special, but over the years I've learned how rich it is :)

Icelandic, because:
1, It is the closest to how the vikings spoke

2 it is supposedly the most difficult to learn, wich means it's hardcore!

or Swedish because:
it's easy to learn other languages from swedish because we have so many vowel sounds


Swedish has the longest word in the world "hypernervokustiskakontradiafragmaviborationer"

Well English is still the most useful worldwide...but for the sake of being different I'll say Russian. Took two years of it in University and it's the only language I've voluntarily attempted to learn (French is mandatory, not voluntary in Canada)

English because it's used the most wordwide.

No it isnt a language.

But English also has an incredibly arbitrary system for prepositions: In, on, for, from, and at are all very hard for non-English speakers to grapple with.